The Cusine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIJI DKDKLMNM COPO| The woman who looks upon man as a sinner | A |
| Unsaved as to soul and uncertain in heart | B |
| Should learn how to cook and prepare him a dinner | A |
| And serve it with talent refinement and art | B |
| Full many a question is solved by digestion | C |
| Bad morals are caused oftentimes by bad cooks | D |
| And many a riot results from poor diet | E |
| Conversion may lie in the leaves of cook books | D |
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| About the dull stalk of the thorntree of duty | F |
| Plant flowers of fragrance and vines of good taste | G |
| Surround the coarse needs of the body with beauty | F |
| Make common things noble make vulgar things chaste | G |
| Put art in housekeeping nor think culture sleeping | H |
| Because the base animal man must be fed | I |
| Delsarte should be able to speak in the table | J |
| 'Expression' may lie in a light loaf of bread | I |
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| Though hard be the labour the end recompenses | D |
| Though weary the journey reward is the goal | K |
| For the soul of a man must be reached through his senses | D |
| As the senses of woman are reached through her soul | K |
| Speak first to his spirit he never will hear it | L |
| Speak first to his body his soul will reply | M |
| The mortal man fare for his appetites care for | N |
| And lo he will follow your footsteps on high | M |
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| Love born in the boudoir oft dies in the kitchen | C |
| The failure of marriage oft starts in the soup | O |
| The stomach appeal to and men's heart you steal to | P |
| Would you reach to the last To the first you must stoop | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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